Name: Holder takes step to fix runaway prison system
Uploaded: Wed Aug 14 2013 01:00:28 GMT+0000 (UTC)
Duration: 16 min 26 s
Description: Bryan Stevenson, founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, talks with Rachel Maddow about the problem of America's exploding prison population, the failures of the war on drugs, and Attorney General Eric Holder's suspension of mandatory minimum sentences for some non-violent drug offenders.

Aug. 14, 201316:26